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A Visit to the Jewish Museum
in Odessa

In February, 2008, Alice Gutenkauf visited Odessa. She took these photos,
including the Jewish Museum there. Click on any photo to see a larger view. See notes to the photos below.

View toward city from the top of the Potemkin Steps above the waterfront. The statue is of Richelieu

The Potemkin Steps

The Jewish Musum

Opera House, side entrance

Looking down the street from the Opera House.

Opera House, front view

Shopping Mall

Park to the Monument to the Fallen of WWII

Monument to the Fallen of WWII

Harbor, looking out to city on the other side

Entrance to the Jewish Museum

Wall of the Jewish Museum

View of the courtyard

Notes to the photos:

We were taken to see the Museum and Opera House, but we were not taken inside. The buildings look very good in that part of the city. As for the Steps, there is a funicular that takes you to the top so that you don't have to climb the steps.

The entrance to the Jewish Museum is in a courtyard behind a large building on the side street. The courtyard is falling apart. People there are working on cars, laundry hands from a window, a child played atop an abandoned well.

The Wall of the Museum was the only intact-looking wall in the courtyard. Note the Jewish ironwork in the windows.